Monthly Archives: March 2018

As you are aware, for all personnel having direct or indirect exposure to laboratory animals, the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals IVA.1f requires Institutions involved in biomedical research to have an Occupational Health and Safety Program (OHSP) aimed at protecting the health of personnel who have direct or indirect exposure to laboratory animals. The Occupational Health and Safety Questionnaire that exists online via Sinai Central must be completed annually.

In an effort to facilitate annual renewals, a “Renew Button” has been introduced. The renew button will allow all members of the research team to:

Submit the form ‘B’ to the Employee Health Service (EHS) annually for review

‘Renew’ option will be available for the life of the protocol (until final report is submitted).

As a reminder, non-compliance in the timely filing of the OHSQ could delay the approval of IACUC Applications.

If you have any questions regarding the Occupational Health and Safety program or the Questionnaire please contact the Employee Health Service (212-824-7014), the Biosafety Officer (212-241 -5169) or the IACUC Office at 212-241-0153.

To promote the use of Proteomics and Metabolomics by Mount Sinai researchers, the Dean’s CoREs and Research Resources Program is hosting a series of seminars to familiarize Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) users with these technologies and capabilities. Both Cores are supported through our collaboration with Stony Brook University. In February, we invited John Haley, PhD, Director of the Proteomics Center (SBU) who gave a presentation focusing on proteomics applications in cancer therapeutics. First in the series, Dr. Haley’s presentation was well received by the ISMMS researchers, particularly by the faculty involved in cancer research.

We are reaching out to you to increase the topics for Proteomics and/or Metabolomics to a wider audience. Please send us the names of additional speakers you would like to invite to speak on the use of these technologies and research applications. It would also be good to know if there are specific areas of research which we should focus on for speakers (Infectious Diseases, Immunology, etc.).

Finally, please let us know if you are planning to invite any particular speaker(s) in and we can discuss partnering with you to support the cost of the visit.

Thank you for your support of the collaboration between SBU and ISMMS as we seek to make this a useful resourceful for the entire ISMMS research community. Please email your response, comments, and questions about the Proteomics/Metabolomics Seminar Series to Dr. Shekhar Patil (shekhar.patil@mssm.edu).

The Center for Comparative Medicine and Surgery (CCMS) is preparing to transition the TOPAZ Granite, software which manages the animal facility enterprise (i.e. animal orders, census, billing, etc.), to Topaz Elements. This updated software is web based and will continue to support the Web Animal Orders application through Sinai Central.

In addition to online animal ordering, this new product will offer the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai investigators the ability to view current census, accrued invoices, and other relevant information related to their vivarium supported research aims.

In order to adequately prepare our existing researchers for this transition, CCMS is excited to offer the below training opportunities.

Three hands on training sessions will be provided for each building (Annenberg, Icahn and Hess) over a three-week period. All the training sessions will take place in the Levy Library classrooms. The training sessions, date, time and room numbers are as follows:

Date

Time

Building

Levy Library Room

Tuesday, 3/13

2-4pm

Annenberg

11-41

Wednesday, 3/14

2-4pm

Icahn

11-41

Thursday, 3/15

2-4pm

HESS

11-41

Tuesday, 3/20

2-4pm

Annenberg

11-41

Wednesday, 3/21

2-4pm

Icahn

10-74

Friday, 3/23

2-4pm

HESS

11-41

Tuesday, 3/27

2-4pm

Annenberg

10-74

Wednesday, 3/28

2-4pm

Icahn

10-74

Thursday, 3/29

2-4pm

HESS

11-41

Please select one of the above training sessions you plan to attend and RSVP by emailing Veronica Moses at veronica.moses@mssm.edu on or before Friday, March 9, 2018. As the training sessions will take place in a classroom setting, we will only be able to accommodate up to 20 people per session. As a result, we will schedule you based upon the order in which you RSVP.

If you cannot attend any of the above sessions, a link to a Topaz Elements training video will be available on CCMS’ website (http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/ccms) after the go live date (to be announced).

If you have any questions, please feel free contact Veronica Moses or the CCMS business office at 212-241-3008.

On March 1, 2017, the Office of Research Services (ORS) and the Research Information Technology Department launched the Research Listserv for research related mailings throughout the Mount Sinai Health System.

For the last year, it has served as a primary source of research related information for the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), sending out nearly 450 emails to our more than 4000 subscribers from throughout the system, many of whom may be unaware of their power to customize their subscription preferences according to their interests and roles in research.

Two of the Research Listserv’s founding goals were to provide choice to users and to limit duplicate blast emails. Therefore, it sends mailings out according to topic and subject, selections that can be made by a user at any time within the MSHS firewall by entering their email address under Research Listserv on the Getting Started page of the Research Web Portal. If a subscriber picks every list below, they can expect to get a broad range of announcements without duplication of individual mailings. Below are the lists from which subscribers can choose:

Human Subjects Research

Guidance & Education

Events

News

Animal Research

Guidance & Education

Events

News

COREs

Guidance & Education

Events

Grant Submission & Management

Awards & Funding Opportunities

Events

Policies, Procedures & Education

NIH and other Funding Agency News

Research Resources

Guidance & Education

Events

News

Resources, Supplies & Equipment

IDEATE

News & Status

It is vital that new research hires and any research personnel who are not getting these emails visit the Getting Started page on the Research Portal where they can find the Research Listserv box and enter their email address to join. Important research related announcements are made by the Dean’s Office as needed, and so please pass the word along. Once new members click on “Save Changes,” they are subscribed and will receive a confirmation email summarizing their selections.

Please feel free to open a ticket with the ORS Research 411 Portal’s Communications Support form for assistance with subscribing, if you have questions about the Research Listserv, or if you have a message that you need to send to the research community.

The Office of Research Services (ORS) serves as a central resource that provides navigation and consultations to Mount Sinai Health System researchers about research processes, resources and systems. Over the last few months, ORS has developed a new streamlined help desk ticketing system called the ORS Research 411 Portal to provide a single point of contact for research teams to ask any research operations related questions and access assistance with the consultative services that the ORS offers. These include, ClinicalTrials.gov registrations & reporting, IND & IDE application support, protocol development, training & education, recruitment, and multi-site study development & coordination. The Research 411 Portal is in the final stages of testing and it will be fully launched by June 2018. In the interim, please visit the ORS Research 411 Portal for your research needs.

The Program for the Protection of Human Subjects (PPHS) has announced a March 14th event, at which members of the research community are asked to provide their opinions and expertise regarding the informed consent template that will become active in the near future. Stemming from their desire to update the template according to proposed changes to the Common Rule, this revision will address both the PPHS’ own concerns and the feedback provided in this open forum workshop.

Announcements and updates about this forum will be made via the Research Listserv via the Human Subjects Research Events category. If you are not (or are not sure if you are) subscribed to this list, please enter your email under Research Listserv on the Research Portal Getting Started page (within the MSHS firewall) to check your current subscriptions and subscribe if needed.